GERMANY’S POWER.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 63, Issue 248, 30 July 1943, Page 4

GERMANY’S POWER.

STAKED UPON THE WEHRMACHT. NAZI PROFESSOR’S SUMMARY. (Rec. 11.25 a.m.) LONDON, July 29. “In view of the political change in Italy, Germany is staking her entire war effort on the powers of the Wehrmacht,” says the “Brusseler Zeitung,” the German language newspaper, published in Brussels. “We do not know what the .next 48 hours will bring. We feel we must rely completely on our own power. We are staking our hopes on the powers concentrated within the boundaries of the German military force.” y. - When high German officials begin to speak openly about, 1918 one can be sure that Hitler’s unshakeabie Third Reich has had a shock. Yet that is wliat is happening in Berlin, reports the Stockholm correspondent of th 6 “D*»ly Express.” .Four - sinister

figures—l9lß—symbolise for the whole nation the country’s collapse in the last war. A 'leading Nazi professor, Johan von Leers, developed the 1918 theme in an article published in “Angriff.” > “Doubtless hard times have come, we have no reason to hush up our reverses,” says Deers, “but we might remind the British of their own reverses. Do the British believe that we are not as tough as they? Germany is again exposed to the same tests as in 1918, but the Jews, who were responsible for the overthrow of Germany in the last war, now have no say. Now wo shall see how great are Germany’s powers of resistance.” Leers cites four developments Avhicli he believes might save Germany. Firstly, shortage of supplies in Russia; secondly, Communism in Britain and America; thirdly, internal troubles in America as a result of the Presidential elections next year; fourthly, a stab in the back for the Allies from Japan. Leers concludes grimly: “Whatever it costs we must not give up.”